Monday, March 30, 2015

Spittle bugs

First froth found by a consultant with an eye for spit.  Interesting creatures, spittlebugs. They whip up a froth of spittle under which they hide as nymphs and feed to their hearts content. Checking first alerts on these bugs, they've been sighted between 4/26 through 5/15 in 10 of the 11 years of alerts sent out. Consistent little spitters but this year is an outlier, for sure.
Robin
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/spittlebugs.htm

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